Semitic languages

Poetik der Fremdheit

Palästinensische und irakische Lyrik des Exils

This first study on contemporary Arabic exile poetry focuses on four poets who contributed essentially to the innovation of the contemporary Arabic “Qa“īda”: Sa ͑dī Yūsuf (b....

Individuation and the Shaping of Personal Identity

A Comparative Study of the Modern Novel

This book endeavors to contribute to comparative literary studies, especially the study of the modern novel, through its analysis of the process of individuation in four distinct...

Abdallah Ibn al-Muqaffa. Kalila und Dimna

Die Fabeln des Bidpai

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„Kalila und Dimna“ ist eine Fabelsammlung, die im Arabischen ihre klassische Form erhalten hat, und gehört zu...

Arabic Minimalist Story

Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era

One of the major aims of this book is to characterize the Arabic minimalist story as a newly established genre of narrative fiction that exploits a host of “austere” techniques in...

Iranian Loanwords in Syriac

The book investigates the deep linguistic contact between Iranians and Arameans from the formation of the Achaemenid empire onwards, and focuses especially on the linguistic...

Qamishly, Plumes et Ténèbres

Lectures de quatre œuvres en prose de Salim Barakat

This study explores the early prose work of the Syrian-Kurdish novelist and poet Salim Barakat (b. 1951). Containing elements of both the realistic and fantastic, his narrative...

Konsonantenwandel

Bausteine zu einer Typologie des Lautwandels und ihre Konsequenzen für die vergleichende Rekonstruktion

First of all the book provides a comprehensive and commented collection and classification of consonantal sound changes in Indo-European, Semitic, and Uralic. The data is given in...

Arabische Korrespondenz

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"Arabische Korrespondenz" ist ein Praxis bezogenes Handbuch und vermittelt Studenten, Praktikern,...

Poetry’s Voice – Society’s Norms

Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies

Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of...

The Nouns of Koranic Arabic Arranged by Topics

A Companion Volume to the “Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic”

This dictionary undertakes, for the first time, to group the substantives and adjectives in the Arabic Koran by topics, with glosses in English. The categories are partly derived ...

Bongornu, kif int?

Einführung in die maltesische Sprache. Schlüssel und Wörterverzeichnis

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Maltesisch ist eine Mischsprache aus einem semitischen Grundstock und starken italienischen und englischen...

Die Figur des Beduinen in der arabischen Literatur

9. bis 12. Jahrhundert

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Im Zentrum der Studie steht die Beduinenfigur, die im Kontext nomadisch-sesshafter Beziehungen untersucht wird....

Reflections on Reflections

Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature

This volume assembles the papers read at a symposium on the diverse forms of literature reception and intertextuality in Middle Eastern literatures in general and Arabic...

Erzählte Tradition

Historische und literarische Figuren im Werk von Zakariya Tamir. Eine narratologische Analyse

Zakariyyā Tāmir (b. 1931) is generally considered to be one of the most innovative authors in contemporary Arabic literature. One characteristic of his short stories is how they...

Arabischer Wortschatz · Lernspiele

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Dieses Buch enthält 150 Wortschatztests zum modernen Hocharabisch für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene. Die...

Das Geheimnis der Geheimnisse

Die arabischen und deutschen Fassungen des pseudo-aristotelischen »Sirr al-asrar / Secretum secretorum«

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Das pseudo-aristotelische „Sirr al-asrar“ / „Secretum secretorum“ gehört zu den einflussreichsten Texten des...

Malti – Germaniz Dizzjunarju kbir. Deutsch – Maltesisch Großes Wörterbuch

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Mit mehr als 64000 Einträgen schlägt dieses Wörterbuch Maltesisch-Deutsch/ Deutsch-Maltesisch eine direkte...

Arabische Stilistik

The "Arabic Stylistics" is the only book in German language and perhaps in European languages in general that deals the very important Arabic balagha with the aim to show the...

Lernwortschatz Arabisch

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Der Erwerb von Wortschatz spielt im Fremdsprachenunterricht immer eine bedeutende Rolle, bildet doch gerade die...

A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic

A ”Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic” is the first dictionary of its kind to appear in well over a century, i. e. after a stretch of time during which, thanks to the endeavors...